The SWEITZER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,115	7460	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	1,004	5444	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+3111	-2016	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	3	209413	0	0
United Kingdom	4	33630	0	0

Top States for SWEITZER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,177	1177	0.010	96
Ohio	403	3445	0.004	35
Maryland	350	1729	0.007	66
Illinois	267	4866	0.002	21
California	179	13746	0.001	5
Top States for SWEITZER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,177	1177	0.010	96
Maryland	350	1729	0.007	66
Ohio	403	3445	0.004	35
Vermont	21	4550	0.003	34
Idaho	37	5039	0.003	29

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SWEITZER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SWEITZER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SWEITZER in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SWEITZER by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SWEITZER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SWEITZER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SWEITZER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	47	1.14
Mixed Race	36	0.87
Asian/Pacific	19	0.46
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.29
Black/African American	5	0.12
White (Caucasian)	3,996	97.11

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SWEITZER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to SWEITZER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWEITZER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.